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Authorities released the identity Saturday of a Rancho Bernardo woman attacked while walking in her apartment complex parking lot.

Jennifer Lee Jones, 28, was in the parking lot of the apartment complex and on the phone with her mother about 4:45 p.m. Thursday when the mother heard a man's voice, sounds of a struggle and her daughter screaming before the line went dead, San Diego police Lt. Kevin Rooneytold the North County Times.

After San Diego police received a call from Jones's mother in Ohio, who was worrying about her daughter's welfare, they used a master key to enter her apartment in the 15900 block of Avenida Venusto and found Jones inside, dead from multiple stab wounds.